Y Care International (YCI)

Y Care International is the YMCA’s international relief and development agency. Y Care works in partnership with YMCAs and other local partners across the developing world to respond to the needs of the most disadvantaged young people.

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Mission

Y Care International is the YMCA’s international relief and development agency. Y Care works in partnership with YMCAs and other local partners across the developing world to respond to the needs of the most disadvantaged young people.

Disaster Reduction Goal

Young people and their communities are more resilient to the impacts of disasters.

Policies and Programmes in DRR

Resilience in Crises
Programmes in
- Nicaragua: Mitigating effects of El Nino in target communities in Nicaragua
- Haiti: Strengthening Livelihoods and Disaster Resilience for Haitian Youth
- Haiti: Mitigating effects of El Nino in target communities in Haiti
- Madagascar
- Liberia: Securing healthy lives and sustainable livelihoods for young people in Liberia
- Liberia: Mobilising young slum dwellers in Liberia to rebuild communities after the Ebola outbreak
- Liberia & Sierra Leone - Mobilising young people in Liberia and Sierra Leone to rebuild communities devastated by the Ebola outbreak
- Sierra Leone: Empowering young slum dwellers for the social and economic transformation of slum communities in Freetown
- Togo: Inspiring the next generation of entrepreneurs in slum communities in Togo
- Senegal
- Bangladesh

Risk assessment and early warning systems (HFA 2)

Education, information and public awareness (HFA 3)

- Projects including public awareness raising of disaster risks and disaster risk reduction led by young people. Projects including training and learning on DRR.
- Annual research into issues surrounding young people and DRR. Youth volunteerism and DRR in urban slums of Freetown, Sierra Leone was the first of this series (in Documents & Publications section of PreventionWeb).

Reducing underlying risk factors (HFA 4)

- Rural livelihoods projects including food security for resilience for young people.

Preparedness for effective response (HFA 5)

- Supporting the YMCA movement to strengthen disaster preparedness for effective response using the Disaster Preparedness Planning Guide and Toolkit (in Documents & Publications section of PreventionWeb) to develop Disaster Preparedness Plans.
- Emphasis of all DRR activities and projects on youth volunteerism and participation.
- Supporting YMCAs to follow the YMCA International Emergency Coordination Protocol and use the Emergency Response Templates to develop emergency response appeals and activities.

Other activities

- Cross-cutting: capacity building of YMCA movement to implement community-based DRR activities and projects with consideration for gender and cultural issues.